Rain

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Rain
Chapter 10: Mistakes

Rain\'s face twisted in a combination of suprise and retrained laughter as she watched her errant student burst yet another dish into flames. \"Jet?\" she snickered.

Jet turned to his reluctant teacher, his face blackened by the thick choking smoke that filled the kitchen. \"What?\"

\"How is it that you burned this one?\" she choked out.

\"I have no idea, maybe the burner reacted to something?\"

\"Jet, you were making pasta salad, all you had to do was boil a few items and toss them together. How did you burn it?\" she asked as she burst into a round of uncontrollable laughter.

Jet shrugged and joined in on her laughter. \"I have absolutely no idea!\"

\"From now on, let me cook. I\'ll even make some cold and heat up dishes the next time I go away on a job. No more regalling tales of you or Spike ruining my kitchen!\" she laughed.

\"Hey, that was the one time!\" Jet defended.

\"You let him use a flame thrower to make shiqabob! Are you nuts?\"

\"I was in the store room looking for clothes!\" Jet explained.

\"After you let Faye cheat you out of everything you own!\"

Jet pouted and glared at the grey eyed woman before him. \"Not my fault she cheated.\"

\"It\'s Faye, Jet, it should be expected!\" Rain shouted, her voice losing it\'s humorus edge.

\"And what\'s wrong with my bell peppers and beef? I think I don\'t do a half bad job at stir fry!\" Jet grumped.

\"Nothing is wrong with your stir fry, it\'d just be nice to actually have beef in it, if it\'s in the title!\"

\"Not my fault it\'s expensive to support a bunch of lazy idiots that break thier ships and have no sense of restriction when it comes to firefights.\"

\"Oh come on! How do you expect anyone to live if you think like a cop all the time!\" Rain argued.

\"At least I wasn\'t some syndicate hussy,\" Jet grumbled.

~*~*~*~

Spike winced as he overheard Jet\'s last comment. He was sitting in the living room, his ear trained on the kitchen.

\"They at it again?\" Faye asked as she took a seat next to him.

Spike noddedYup.Yup. And it\'s just about to get violent.\"

\"HUSSY! Why you egomaniacal, jerk! You self-absorbed super cop! What gives you the right to call me that!\" Rain\'s voice bellowed.

\"Self-absorbed! Me? I\'m not nearly as self-absorbed as you are! You egotistical, haughty, ignorant, Slut!\" Jet\'s voice shouted back.

Faye shook her head. \"He\'s gonna get a frying pan to the head for that,\" she sighed.

Her comment was followed by the resounding twang of metal against bone. \"You ass hole!\" Rain screamed.

\"Ow! That fucking hurt!\" Jet whined.

\"It should you jerk! I hope you feel it for weeks! I can\'t believe you, you... you neurotic, obsessive, one-armed bastard!\"

Spike shook his head as he let out a plume of silver colored smoke. \"He\'s really pissed her off this time.\"

\"Stupid bitch!\" Jet growled.

\"Asshole!\" Rain shot back as she stormed from the kitchen, dented frying pan in hand as she stalked up the stairs to her room. \"I hope you rot in hell, you bastard!\" she screeched before slamming the door shut.

Jet grumbled as he stumbled out of the kitchen into the living area. Spike and Faye snickered at his blackened face and the large, goose egg sized lump on his head.

\"Man, Jet, you really pissed her off this time,\" Spike chuckled.

\"Shut up!\" Jet snapped.

Faye shook her head. \"And after Ed and I gave her such a bother over her being in love with you. You really know how to treat women, Jet.\"

Jet\'s eyes were wide as he stared, mouth gaping at Faye. \"She what?\"

Spike himself was surprised. \"She what?\"

Faye sighed and shook her head again. \"Men can be so dense. I 't b't belive you two never noticed. I mean, I admit that I didn\'t know it was Jet until a little while ago, but I knew she was in love! Men!\" she said as she left the room, leaving both Spike and Jet gaping after her in shock.

~*~*~*~

That ungratful jerk! Here she was, trying to teach him to cook, and he starts a fight. How unfair. It wasn\'t really the fight that got her, it was what he had said. Hussy, slut, every word bit into her like a thousand, red hot knives. Of all the people in the universe, she had hoped that no one on this hunkering piece of crap of a ship would call her that. If she had wanted that, she would have stayed in the syndicate and become Vicious\' bitch. She whimpered at that thought as memories flooded her mind.

[Flashback]

Vicious laughed maliciously. \"You\'re crying? I\'ve seen you take worse and laugh!\"

Eve cringed in the corner, her naked and quivering body curled up in a ball as bloody welts formed where the lash had bit into her flesh. \"Stop... please,\" she begged.

The cold eyed man grimaced and grabbed her by the ankle, uncurling her body as he chained her down. She whimpered as tears fell down. \"Please... no, Vicious... please stop, I\'m begging you!\" she cried out.

\"Begging? You nevre beg! You\'re the Crimson Dragon! You never beg!\" he sho ang angrily as he began to unbuckle his belt to his slacks.

Eve\'s wide grey eyes were red with tears and swollen with briuses. \"No! Not again!\"

Vicious smiled cruelly. \"You\'re a whore! My whore! I\'ll do what I want with you, when I want!\" he shouted as he pulled down his pants and slammed his swollen member into her dry womanhood, tearing a scream from her throat as he pounded into her. \"That\'s right, you slut! Scream for me!\" he growled.

[End Flashback]

Rain shivered and whimpered as her hands strayed to the covered scars on her back. All they were now were pale white lines on her equally pale skin.

\"Rain?\" a soft male voice called.

\"Come in, Spike,\" Rain sighed.

Spike storlled into the room, taking a seat on the bed across from Rain. \"He\'s an idiot.\"

\"I know that.\"

\"I\'m sorry,\" he said softly.

\"For what?\"

\"He hurt you, saying those things.\"

Rain froze. \"Yes, yes he did.\"

\"You have flashes again?\" he asked.

Rian nodded.

Spike closed his eyes, a sadness and knowlege hidden in his eyes. \"Oh Rain.\"

\"Just hold me,\" she whispered as she collapsed into his arms.

Spike clutched the crying woman close, his arms wrapped tightly around her as he held her close. \"I\'m so sorry, Rain,\" he whispered as he rocked her.

\"Stay with me?\" she asked, her eyes shining with tears.

Spike nodded, and pulled her back into his arms. \"\'Course.\"

~*~*~*~

Rain gasped as she awoke. Another nightmare. She shivered as the last remnants of her horrid dream faded away. Slowly, she sat up, noticing a weight on her left as she sat up. She gasped as she noticed that she was nude. She glanced over to the left, her head turning slowly, like a horror film heroine as she looked behind herself. Spike lay beside her, his arm draped over her. He too was completely unclothed.

Rain placed her head in her hands as she remembered what had happened the night before. She was so stupid! Her grief and fear had lead to this... mistake of need and raw lust. Why it was always Spike, illuded her. \'Because he\'s the only one that knows, that\'s why,\' she reprimaded herself as she threw on a pair of discarded jeans and a t-shirt. Quickly, she grabbed her belongings and shoved them into a bag. This time, it would be her that left. Things had become to complicated and Spike had become too convenient. With a last, parting look over the room and the slumbering man inside, she unlocked the door and crept into the hall.

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Levii: Whee! I\'ve updated! And it\'s an angsty doozy!